Alex Ilchenko
Senior Software Engineer at Swing Development (SwingDev)
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Ilchenko is a senior software engineer and hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience building web, mobile and game applications from concept to production. Based in Warsaw, he has progressed from Flash and game development to front-end leadership and engineering management roles at companies like Hippo Insurance and Swing Development, now back to a senior engineering role while still heading front-end at SwingDev. He brings deep front-end expertise, a strong product sensibility from game and UI design, and experience running teams and delivery across distributed projects. Alex’s career began in the early 2000s, giving him a long view on web evolution and pragmatic instincts for maintaining and modernizing legacy systems. Despite not completing formal CS studies, he has repeatedly stepped into leadership positions and technical ownership, blending creative UX thinking with robust engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates design-driven ideas into production-ready interfaces and reliable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AGH University
Russian, English, Polish
Github Skills (45)
javascript10
openlibrary10
electron10
windows10
v810
css10
desktop10
chrome10
html10
js10
nodejs10
cross-platform9
macos9
lint7
react6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wialy/power-of-two
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
wialy/react-game-jam-spooky-cookie
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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